Marco Angelici, MEMS Micro Actuators Business Unit Director at STMicroelectronics talks to Nick Flaherty about the development of laser based AR systems as the next generation of communication devicesThe recent $500m deal for Snap to buy a key supplier for its AR glasses, Oxford-based WaveOptics, has much wider implications. Suppliers are seeing the mobile phone market plateau, and augmented reality systems are the next display technology. Like mobile phones, European companies are playing a key role in the developing technology.